Darren Levine
August 7th, 2014, 10:00 AM
I'm going on a trip to germany next week, and of course the main consideration is what camera will i bring. the rx10 is my goto vacation-cam, but the intervalometer issue is something i had hoped would be resolved by now.
this may rant for a bit...
for those of you who aren't aware. the rx10 doesn't do timelapse, it has the sony multi-interface, which has been a completely unsupported port of remarkable uselessness. and i do mean useless: see, this new sony standard came out quite awhile ago, and up until now, they've made right about 1 stupid remote for it that just does basic functions. so either sony forgot to make accessories for their port, or expected thrid party makers to step up. well, they haven't, until recently, sort of.
i just bought a remote that claimed compatibility for the rx10/a7s/everything mult-terminal. guess what? doesn't work.
apparently, the rx10 is so special, that it doesn't read from that port the same way any other cameras with that port read, and thus it is the only camera that is completely useless with regards to the port(save for that one sony remote)
Even more fun: after i had ordered that cable, the amazon description magically changed, omitting the rx10 from it. (yes, i'm 100% sure i checked it had the rx10 listed when i ordered)
Then onto what everyone thought would be the savior: triggertrap. a company making a nice little dongle connection to your phone for control. They made a cable for the port, and even listed the rx10 as compatible, but the nice fellow who just responded to my inquiry informed me that the rx10 is just doing something different and won't work with it.
so what about that timelapse app?
im tinkering with it today as a last resort, and it's not terribly encouraging. first off, it's all auto. second, i can't get it to do faster than intervals of 4 seconds in raw. the raw images are 20mb, and the two cards i've tried are rated for 30mb/s and 60mb/s write, and the little red light stays on for a solid 2 seconds. begs another question: does the RX10 have an insufficient buffer for raw timelapse?
that'll end this rant. it's just very silly to me that sony, the company that pumps out more cameras than anyone, can't handle a remarkably common accessory for one it's is premium consumer items.
i could take my 5d2 and fiddle with ML raw, but that introduces it's own issues, and i'd have to go and buy new CF cards....
this may rant for a bit...
for those of you who aren't aware. the rx10 doesn't do timelapse, it has the sony multi-interface, which has been a completely unsupported port of remarkable uselessness. and i do mean useless: see, this new sony standard came out quite awhile ago, and up until now, they've made right about 1 stupid remote for it that just does basic functions. so either sony forgot to make accessories for their port, or expected thrid party makers to step up. well, they haven't, until recently, sort of.
i just bought a remote that claimed compatibility for the rx10/a7s/everything mult-terminal. guess what? doesn't work.
apparently, the rx10 is so special, that it doesn't read from that port the same way any other cameras with that port read, and thus it is the only camera that is completely useless with regards to the port(save for that one sony remote)
Even more fun: after i had ordered that cable, the amazon description magically changed, omitting the rx10 from it. (yes, i'm 100% sure i checked it had the rx10 listed when i ordered)
Then onto what everyone thought would be the savior: triggertrap. a company making a nice little dongle connection to your phone for control. They made a cable for the port, and even listed the rx10 as compatible, but the nice fellow who just responded to my inquiry informed me that the rx10 is just doing something different and won't work with it.
so what about that timelapse app?
im tinkering with it today as a last resort, and it's not terribly encouraging. first off, it's all auto. second, i can't get it to do faster than intervals of 4 seconds in raw. the raw images are 20mb, and the two cards i've tried are rated for 30mb/s and 60mb/s write, and the little red light stays on for a solid 2 seconds. begs another question: does the RX10 have an insufficient buffer for raw timelapse?
that'll end this rant. it's just very silly to me that sony, the company that pumps out more cameras than anyone, can't handle a remarkably common accessory for one it's is premium consumer items.
i could take my 5d2 and fiddle with ML raw, but that introduces it's own issues, and i'd have to go and buy new CF cards....